title: Surgical treatment for congenital curved nail of the fourth toe.
abstract: Since congenital curved nail of the fourth toe (CNFT) was reported by Iwasawa et al in 1991, there have been only 19 cases of CNFT in 6 reports, which were from Japan and Taiwan. We performed surgery on 4 patients with CNFT and report here good results. There has been no previous detailed report on surgical treatment for this condition. This report will describe the treatment, mainly the surgical procedure.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Chiba University, Faculty of Medicine, Chiba; †Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Showa University, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo; and ‡Department of Plastic Surgery, Kochi Medical School Hospital, Kochi, Japan.
authors.forename: Nobuyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mitsukawa
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Karube
authors.forename: Atsuomi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saiga
authors.forename: Shinsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akita
authors.forename: Yoshitaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: Motone
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuriyama
authors.forename: Kaneshige
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Satoh
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009264:Nails, Malformed / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D016896:Treatment Outcome